“I’ve always been into the labor-intensive nature of photography,” Mr. Brandt defined. “With digital, it’s all zeros and ones; chemical photography is becoming obsolete. But that’s why I like it. I like the pathos of it.”

Thirty-five miles from Amsterdam, within the town of Utrecht, the Dutch artists Jaya Pelupessy and Felix van Dam, two extra individuals to the Foam exhibition, have been striking the completing touches to their newest challenge. I discovered them in Mr. Pelupessy’s studio — a big, concrete-floored area jumbled with books, prints, and photographic equipment, and flooded with cool northern European gentle.

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Felix Van Dam, left, and Jaya Pelupessy of their studio in Utrecht, the Netherlands.Credit
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On one aspect of the room was once a cumbersome, ungainly bellows digicam on a tripod: a home made contraption that the artists, like Victorian photographic amateurs, had constructed to their very own specification. Using this package, they produce silkscreen prints of family items that resemble blocky, bitmap pc graphics.

The procedure comes to hand-coating mesh displays in UV-delicate emulsion and exposing them to gentle, which creates a picture that may be revealed via hand. Shutter speeds are within the neighborhood of 40 mins, with colour filters used so as to add other tints.

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Mr. Pelupessy and Mr. Van Dam evolved a brand new methodology with a big-layout digicam that mixes images and silkscreen printing.Credit
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“One image takes days of work,” Mr. Pelupessy, 28, mentioned, including that it had made him perceive the paintings of pioneers like Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins with contemporary admire. “When we started the project, everyone we talked to said, ‘Why?’ ”

But the enchantment was once impossible to resist, he mentioned. Instead of hitting a virtual shutter, he and Mr. van Dam spent hour after hour build up pictures, layer via painstaking layer — taking part in with gentle, colour, and shape just like the women and men who created images, by no means fairly understanding what would outcome.

After all, Mr. Pelupessy mirrored, the phrase “photography” actually method “drawing with light.” “There’s something magical in the process,” he mentioned. “These techniques are old, but they’re also new. They still surprise us.”